| Anthony Blunt  AKA Anthony Frederick Blunt
Born: 26-Sep-1907
Birthplace: Bournemouth, Hampshire, England
Died: 26-Mar-1983
Location of death: London, England
Cause of death: Heart Failure
Gender: Male
Religion: Anglican/Episcopalian
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Gay
Occupation: Art Historian, Spy Nationality: England
Executive summary: Art historian, Soviet spy Military service: British Army (1939-40); MI5 (1940-45) The "Fourth Man" of the Cambridge spy scandal. Brother: Wilfrid Jasper Walter Blunt
Brother: Christopher Evelyn Blunt
Boyfriend: Guy Burgess (Cambridge spy, briefly lovers)
Boyfriend: John Gaskin
High School: Marlborough College
University: Trinity College, Cambridge University (1932)
Administrator: Director, Courtauld Institute of Art (1947-74)
Professor: Art History, University of London (1960-)
Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures 1945-73
Warburg Institute Staff (1937-39)
Granted Immunity
Knighthood 1956 (later rescinded)
French Legion of Honor 1958
Traveled to the USSR 1933
Author of books:
Artistic Theory in Italy (1940)
François Mansart and the Origins of French Classical Architecture (1941)
French Drawings at Windsor Castle (1945)
Art and Architecture in France 1500-1700 (1953, with R. Beresford)
Philibert de l'Orme (1958)
The Art of William Blake (1959)
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